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2. Renters, landlords, and farmland stewardship
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Deaton, B. James (author), Lawley, Chad (author), and Nadella, Karthik (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-05-11
- Published:
- United States: International Association of Agricultural Economists
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12579
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 49, Iss. 1
- Notes:
- 11pgs, Are farmers better stewards of the land they own than the land they rent from others? We answer this question using a data set that identifies Ontario farmers’ conservation practices on their own land as well as the land they rent. Using a fixed-effects regression approach, we find that the role of tenure varies for different types of conservation practices. Farmers were found to be just as likely to adopt a machinery-related practice such as conservation tillage on their rented land as that land which they own. On the other hand, farmers were found to be less likely to adopt site-specific conservation practices such as planting cover crops on rented land. However, this effect diminishes as the expected length of the rental relationship increases when the landlord has a farming background.